adjective
gennētos
Strong’sG1084
begotten, born
stem gennēt-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
γεννητός, -ή -όν
(< γεννάω), [in LXX: Jb 11:2, 12 14:1 15:14 25:4 (ילד)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1084 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidghen-nay-tos'
born
Fromfrom G1080;
King Jamesthey that are born.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
begotten, υἱὸς γ., opposed to ποιητός, Refs 5th c.BC+; mortal, Refs 2nd c.AD+; γεννητοὶ γυναικῶν born of women, NT
II generable, opposed to φθαρτός, Refs 4th c.BC+; ὑλὴ γ. matter for generation, Refs adverb -τῶς by means of generation, Refs 4th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | gennētos | gennētas | gennētem | gennētois | gennētais | gennēteim |
| object accusative | gennēton | gennētan | gennētoin | gennētain | ||
| direct address vocative | gennētor | gennētar | gennētoir | gennētair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | gennētou | gennētau | gennēteu | gennētoiu | gennētaiu | gennēteiu |
| to, for dative | gennēto | gennēta | gennēte | gennētoi2×γεννητοῖς | gennētai | gennētei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
gennēt is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
gennētoi“born”to, fordative plural2×
Matthew 11:11amēn legamō vi, ouk egerotē en gennētoi gunaikaiu megoteros Iōannou tou baptistou; tos …Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has risen no …
Luke 7:28legamō vi, megoteros en gennētoi gunaikaiu Iōannou oudenos atō; tos de …I tell you, among those born of women there is no one …